How to Practice Dharma &
Twenty-Eight Ways to Volunteer Your Support
You are welcome to join the global
Sanatana Dharma community
Sanatana Dharma welcomes all sincere seekers who wish to adopt Sanatana Dharma as their spiritual path. These are a few things you can do to get started in your practice of a Dharmic lifestyle. By protecting Dharma and supporting your spiritual teacher, you can become a great example for your community.
Step 1. Beginning a Dharmic Lifestyle
- Consider becoming vegetarian.
- Begin reading the Bhagavad-Gita, the most important Dharma scripture.
- Learn how to practice spiritual meditation.
- Understand and accept the principles of karma/reincarnation.
- Join the International Sanatana Dharma Society, a local Sanatana Dharma temple or Satsangha group. Join the Dr. Frank Morales email list
Step 2. Becoming a Practicing Dharmi (follower of Dharma)
After declaring yourself a Dharmi, you may want to then deepen your understanding and practice of Dharma by incorporating a serious spiritual practice into your daily life. The best way to do this is under the guidance of a qualified and knowledgeable guru, or spiritual teacher. The following steps will help you with this deepening of your practice.
- Study the philosophy and teachings of Dharma under the guidance of a qualified guru.
- Adopt a healthy spiritual lifestyle, including vegetarianism, and following the ethical principles of Dharma.
- Practice regular spiritual meditation, mantras and puja.
- Seek initiation from a qualified guru (spiritual teacher). Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya is one of the most highly qualified and authentic gurus in the tradition of Sanatana Dharma in the world today. Please contact us if you would like to be considered as a serious candidate for initiation by Sri Acharyaji.
Changing the World—Twenty-Eight Ways to Volunteer Your Support for Dharma
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the International Sanatana Dharma Society
One of the best and most effective ways to support Dharma and help revive spirituality in the world to support the ISDS. We have the authentic leadership to do things correctly. Volunteering is also an excellent spiritual practice. You can get involved by donating volunteer assistance and funding.
- Ask what needs to be done
- Participate in ISDS events
- Donate your special skills and talents for a special ISDS project
- Join and take part in the Sanatana Dharma Discussion Forum
- Help to set up, organize, and run the Weekly Omaha Meditation-Satsangha
- Share links to DharmaCentral and DharmaNation Videos with relevant forums and websites
- Start your own website or blog on Dharma and the ISDS
- Organize a speaking engagement for Sri Acharyaji at an event in your community
- Host an ISDS event or Meditation Satsangha at your home
- Organize volunteers for an ISDS project
- Share Sri Acharyaji's work with the press
- Bring flower garlands, decorations, food or drink to events
- Donate office equipment and supplies to the ISDS
- Broadcast ISDS events on local bulletin boards. Sanatana Dharma Flyers and information can be obtained from www.dharmacentral.com
- Be a media guerilla. Use e-mail, fax, photocopies, and newsletters to broadcast news of ISDS
- Use music, art, stories, drama, film, and other creative media to explore themes of Dharma and spirituality.
- Advertise a Dharma message by using a Dharma flag, poster, badge, t-shirt, or bumper sticker. These can be obtained from the Spiritual Gift Store at www.dharmacentral.com
- Organize or join a Dharma study circle centered on the articles and books of Sri Acharyaji. Self-education is a fast track to empowerment toward spiritual understanding.
- Stay tuned to what's going on in the world through alternative newsletters, periodicals, newspapers, radio, TV, and online, avoiding to the best of your ability the controlled information of the "mainstream media."
- Distribute copies of “Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way” to your friends family and associates.
- Become an active volunteer on a Dharma project
- Start an online discussion group on Sanatana Dharma.
- Call a radio talk show. The good ones are often the town meetings of the airwaves.
- Adopt a politician. Write a monthly letter to your Representative, Senator, or the President about Dharma-related issues.
- Run for elective office, especially on the local level. Be a voice for Dharma, reasoned sanity, and balance.
- Vote. Voting is your hard-earned right and your official voice. For information about the democratic voting process, visit the Federal Election Commission.
- Teach young people about Dharma. Let your behavior reflect the values you want them to espouse.
- Write letters and articles to the editors of your local media in support of the Dharmic perspective on current issues. Published, they can change minds, and even unpublished they can impact the media.